Alert to sound X pips AWAY from an MA

Just wondering is there is an indicator out there that will sound an alert when price has travelled x amount of pips AWAY from an MA, NOT towards.

Example: 15min chart price has moved bullish 300pips from 200ema, I have set an alert for 300pips away from said ma, I receive an alert and I take a manual sell position.

I already use a visual on the MT4 ma levels option but a sound would be much better.

Many thanks
Utopia.

hi ....
i am looking this ma alert too, i can't find it any where.
please some one help to code the default MA at mt4, to have alert when it crossing the each level we set or a number of pips we can set at before reach the level.

thx

This may not be exactly what you looking but it is pretty close.

hi code meister,

thank you for your help and i really apreciated, it is not like the MA i need. i just need the standar MA option with the alert level signal.

it use EMA not MA, there is no option to choose to use sma.

i wonder there is no one, i've been searching for a weeks.

Here, just modded it so you slect the type of MA you want. In your case just make InputMAtype = 0 and you will have a simple MA.

hi thank you for your help... i am really apreciated, you make it to use with the SMA.
but there is no= apply to= feature on that, actually i need this apply feature.
and there is no level line on that pipmark version.

please i hope you can do modified to the original MA standar at MT4 that have all complete feature to have alert on level value i put in.

there is periode, shift, apply to, level at standar MA...

i hope this is the right file from indicator mt4, because i have no coding knowledge.

thx

You can now input period, shift, MA type, price type.

Hi Flyer415 and CodeMeister,

Many thanks for the indicator and modifications you have made, I have tested it and it is exactly what I have been looking for. Much appreciated. If a Pipsmark 4 is ever released might I suggest the additional function of an alarm that repeats for a minute or so just for situations where a trader is away from their PC or in another room and the volume is turned up.

Cheers
Utopia

hi flyer415 and code meister, i want to say thank too, it help me me with the alert to trading, i apreciated verymuch.... at least i don't have to do manual alert at mt4...

new version can be with the level... that would be a perfect indicator that i need...

thank you.

Actually, this stuff is fairly simple to modify.

I suggest that you have a look at some code and some tutorials from CodersGuru.

Modifying an existing indicator to provide additional inputs and alerts is the easiest of tasks. I learned it over the past year just so I could get an indicator exactly how I wanted it.

Enjoy.

CodeMeister (and others interested who may be helping),

I may have the wrong indicator to do what I want

I must be obtuse, but I have been inside and around and up and down with the PipsMarkV3 and I cannot get it to do what I am trying to do. Not saying it isn't a great workable indicator, and it seems to be doing what was 'advertised' here (if I may use that term). I just think I'm trying to get it to do things it wasn't designed to do.

Let me explain my problem this way.

I have a 60sma tracking along and I want to know (within a settable number of pips from 0 to whatever) when price is that pip setting away from the SMA. Say the price is currently approaching from below the SMA and the alarm is silent. When the price reaches a point (say 5.0 pips away) from the current value of the 60sma, I would like the indicator to notify me.

Further, If I were to set the indie at zero the alarm should not go off until the current price equals the SMA value.

PipsMarkV3 seems to be doing the opposite of what I am looking for. The arrow and the alarm are appearing when the pips below the SMA exceed the set value. It looks to me like it is letting me know when it is so many pips headed away - not what I am looking for.

Do I have that right, or am I hopelessly screwed up in my thinking?

I have done a little resetting and changing of color values or default settings in other MQ4 files but this is beyond my limited coding understanding (if I even dare refer to it that way).

A second question about PipsMarkV3

And while I have your attention, I have a second question. I see all of the settable parameters addressed in the current version coder notes except the following:

InputMAshift --- I understand that one, I believe (how many bars you want the MA shifted with either a negative or positive #)

InputMAprice ---There does not appear to be an explanation for this user-settable parameter. What role is it playing in the script? I don't know what it is doing or how to set it.

Anyway that is my question (or two questions actually).

Thanks for the generous spirit which so many of you show. I too am helping out others when it looks like I might know more than they about a given subject, but I want you to know you are appreciated.

It was a weird experience reading your remarks about PipsMark. I was sure that you were wrong about the alarm being for movement away from the MA. Then I looked at the code and confirmed that was the case. But the whole time, it was like I couldn't remember doing any of this and it was only a year ago. Instead of "deja vu", it was "jamais vu" (which is a valid expression - look it up).

Anyway here is a new version with the functionality you want. It needed a new name to distinguish it from PipsMark, so I called it Pips2MA. Here is what the settings are.

AlertPips=10; // distance from close to MA in pips.
AlertBarsSkip=3; // number of bars to skip before next alert.
MAperiods=10; // MAperiods - the number of periods to be used by the MA calculation.
MAmethod="E"; // MAmethod - the method to be used by the MA calculation ('S', 'W', 'E', 'M').
MAapply="C"; // MAapply - the price type to be used by the MA calculation ('M', 'T', 'O', 'C', 'H', 'L').
MAshift=0; // MAshift - the number of periods for the MA shift calculation.

Alright Codemeister -- vindicated!

And my reaction to your "jamais vu" is "pas vu si juste en face de moi" (not seen if right in front of me).

Thanks for your comeback to my question.

Are you sharing the MQ4 version as well? (You did on the other)

I will get to this and test it right away. I would think this will be pretty popular. Folks I have mentioned this to have said, yeah, that would be useful. Let me know if you find it.

In regards to my second question above (repeated here for convenience) on the PipsMarkV3

InputMAprice ---There does not appear to be an explanation for this user-settable parameter. What role is it playing in the script? I don't know what it is doing or how to set it.

I still plan to use the PipsMarkV3 in certain situations and I would like to understand that parameter.

Thanks.

Abinadi - you were right; it is very popular. 72 downloads in less than a day. V3 only has 90 in almost a year.

As far as providing the source code - I think not. As can be seen above with PipsMark, I lost control of the mods. Now its everybody's and nobody's code.

InputMAprice - same as what I call MAapply - the price type for the MA calculation. Only he wants the number instead of a letter.

Entirely appropriate and no dissent from me.
Thanks for the help, once again.

Rich

Codemeister,

A big thanks to you for the Pips2MA indi...extremely useful for anyone that uses moving averages in any way, whether that be crosses, S/R or trailing stops. Much appreciated!

Jack

I wanted to say thank you as well for posting this indicator...is there any way to also add an email alert as well to the sound alert when price is x pips away from the moving average? thanks again!

I'll second that, an email alert would be really useful. Cannot believe there are not more indicators like this available for what is a relatively straightforward task.

Many thanks.

Hi, guys. Thanks CodeMeister and Flyer for the indi and the mods. This is exactly what I'm looking for but I can't get it to work!

I copied it to the MT4 expertsindicators folder, opened MT4 and it showed up in the Custom indicators list. Then I drag it onto a M15 chart and the config window pops up ok. I close it, and nothing happens. It shows up in the Indicators list but I just don't see any info.

I must be missing something simple. Can you help?

Thanks!